Rather More than One-Third Had No Jewish Blood
American Progressivism and German-Jewish Cosmopolitanism at the New School for Social Research, 1933-1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4314520 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Bessner (0000-0001-5528-7166, Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-129 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel3010099 |
| OpenAlex | W2002601883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 32 |
The New School for Social Research's University in Exile accepted more German and European exiled intellectuals than any other American institution of higher education. This paper argues that transnational, cosmopolitan ideological and interest-based affinities shared by left-leaning American progressives and German-Jewish intellectuals enabled the predominantly Jewish University in Exile to become a vibrant intellectual space accepted by the community of largely anti-Semitic American academics. These affinities also illuminate why, despite the fact that the émigrés' exile was in large part the result of National Socialist hatred of Jews, Alvin Johnson (the founder of the University in Exile) and the faculty members that comprised it seldom discussed the University's Jewish demographics. The Jewish faculty members ignored the relationship between their ethnicity and exile because to focus on it would have been to admit that the cosmopolitan project they had embraced in Central Europe had failed. Johnson ignored the faculty's Jewish heritage for two reasons. First, he endorsed a cosmopolitan American nationalism. Second, he understood that the generally anti-Semitic community of American academics would have rejected the University in Exile if he stressed the faculty's Jewishness. In ignoring the University in Exile's Jewish demographics, Johnson and the University's faculty successfully adhered to a strategy designed to foster the exiles' entrance into the American intellectual community. Thus, while cosmopolitanism failed in Germany and Central Europe, the exiles' later influence on the American academy indicates that it partially succeeded in the United States
Cosmopolitanism · German · Ideology · Jewish studies · Judaism · Matriculation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Classics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · German Social Sciences and History · History · Law · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Religious studies
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About the Term Exile
To Stand and Fight
That Noble Dream
Emil Lederer
Send These to Me
The German Universities and National Socialism
A haven for homeless intellects
Historical research on the refugee intellectuals
The Envy of the World and the Pride of the Jews
John Dewey and the Polish Question
Pluralism and Progressives. Hull House and the New Immigrants, 1890-1919
New School
New School
The Literature on War
Dilemmas of Cosmopolitanism
George Mosse at 80
New School
John Dewey and the Immigrants
Private Bias and Public Responsibility
Liberalism and the Quest for Orderly Change
The Admission and Assimilation of Minority Students at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, 1900-1970
Rights and Duties Under International Law
War in Our Time. Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research., Hans Speier , Alfred Kahler
The Influence of European Émigré Scholars on Comparative Politics, 1925–1965
Ideas in Exile
Max Weber
A Legislative Attack on Educational Discrimination
Eclipse of the Great Man
The Reception of Refugee Scholars from Nazi Germany in America
The Rationale for Restriction
Ethnic Diversity, Cosmopolitanism and the Emergence of the American Liberal Intelligentsia
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2020 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |